After reading all seventy-five poems from the 2006 edition of Best American Poetry, we were suddenly faced with both the liberty and agony of choosing the top three poems we believed best represented the year 2006. While shuffling through the possibilities, we decided to choose three diverse poems, each with a different emotional pull, subject…
During the fall of 2016, Matt Meyjes and I conducted an interview with esteemed American contemporary poet Robert Wrigley. Mr. Wrigley was born in St. Louis, IL in 1951 and was the first person in his family to graduate from college, escaping a dreary life of coal-mining. Though he does think that poetry is a very useful…
Posted on the bulletin board at the entrance of Palmer’s Market, Darien, Connecticut.
Originally published in the New England Review, Laura Kasischke’s poem about the love between a mother and son, “At Gettysburg,” was featured in the 2006 edition of Best American Poetry. As the mother of a nine-year-old son with a determined fascination for the Civil War, Kasischke describes her son’s intrigue as being “bloody creek”…
American writer and poet Krista Benjamin grew up in Lake Tahoe, CA, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California in San Diego. Benjamin spent the early part of her career writing and publishing for various literary magazines, journals, and newspapers around the California/Nevada region. Later, Benjamin was awarded with an Artist Fellowship from…
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